Grand Places

Stop Three on *the great tour*:

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March 1st 2005
Brussels, Belgium It is a *very* short ride from Limburg and the 5-city area over to Brussels. 3 ½ hours, with a train change. So when we got to Brussels at 2:30, we met Martin de Wrangel in the train station, dropped our things by his house in the Uccle area, then went back out to see what there was to do on a Saturday afternoon. We ended up walking around the center of town, seeing the Grand ... read more

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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more